Several times I’ve watched a sparrowhawk catch, dispatch and pluck a small songbird in my garden from the comfort of my pain cave.
Never gets old.
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Very cool! Esp the hot air balloon. I haven’t lived in Texas for a while and forgot about the animal shows.
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Most recently, up the narrow canyon nearby, a logging truck on its side with 20-30 foot logs strewn all over the road like matchsticks.
A long time ago in Australia on a deserted road, a taipan sunning itself stretched across almost the full width of the road. I was going fast, fully loaded with touring gear, saw it too late, instead of slamming on the brakes I hit the gas and hopped my front wheel over it, smashing it with my rear wheel. Snake was not happy. I kept sprinting for way longer than necessary but it freaked me out.
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was riding on vacation in COS, coming back into town from Cheyenne Canyon when I saw a pickup truck just blast through a motorcycle that was stopped waiting to turn left. Still can’t believe that guy wasn’t dead. 
Coming down Unicoi gap into Helen, Ga I saw a guy in a full gorilla costume riding a Vespa. He did have his helmet on on top of the mask at least.
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Not sure if this is a strange thing or more of a weird near miss, but a sheet of plywood flying out of the back of a pickup and landing on the road right in front of me (with enough warning to avoid it, thankfully).
A pickup truck in a tree (fully off the ground, stuck in the tree).
A long procession of old punch buggies. Bit situational b/c I was towards the end of a long sketchy descent, very cold, and mentally fatigued so it was kinda trippy.
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I’ll be near Richmond when I finish up the RAIN ride in July. Hope they get the fire out by then!
I got to the top of a local hill and there was a naked man saluting the sun…weird but each to his own i guess.
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I was riding on a very wide shoulder when a pickup truck passes me by and a BBQ grill it was carrying falls out the back right beside me. It slid on the road for several hundred feet and at one point was going as fast as I was. I stopped when it did and pulled it out of the road for the driver to come back and pick it back up safely. No harm no foul…
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Took a couple days but it’s out now 
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I think this one takes the cake 
hopefully the salute was with his hand.
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Several vague yet threatening shadowy figures, squirrels in Australia, and an honest-to-god Cthulu.
And that, children, is how I found out I’m schizophrenic.
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Nothing super notable really stands our for me during training rides, but in general, I seem to have a “gift” for catching folks in flagrante delicto.
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Hang on…why does it have two derailleurs? Also a tall bike with a suspension fork is a great idea that invites bad ideas
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Also in Australia, I had finished lunch and about to resume touring. I saw a vehicle heading my way but quite far. I decided to wait 30 seconds knowing they were just going to have to pass me anyway. Started riding immediately after they passed. A few hundred yards later their left rear wheel blew completely off the ute, they drove for a bit on the drum with sparks flying, and the wheel went a hundred yards off the road and over the adjacent railroad tracks. If I hadn’t waited… who knows.
In Greece with my cousin, he saw two people at a campground having sex outside their tent as we rode around looking for a good spot. We rode by again and they had changed positions. I was so focused on finding the absolute best campsite that I missed the whole thing.
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